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1650, Pierre, a master butcher, arrived in New France on a 3-year contract.

4/7/1651, Pierre acquired a concession from the Jesuits in the seigneurie of Notre-Dame-des-Anges, 3 arpents frontal by 16 deep to the boundary of Beauport river.

7/16/1652, Pierre acquire 4 arpents frontage by a league and a half deep on the eastern edge of Chateau Richer. Pierre built a cabin on this property.

3/10/1653, Pierre sold an arpent of his land to Gilles Bacon with the right to cut trees.

10/30/1653, Pierre sold his homestead in Beaupre to Mathieu Hubou dit Deslongchamps for 300 livres tournois.

12/20/1653–1/18/1654, the 3 banns were published about the upcoming wedding of Pierre and Jeanne.

2/2/1654, Pierre and Jeanne’s brother Francois signed the marriage contract.

2/9/1654 in Quebec City, in the home of Sieur Robert Giffard, Pierre married Jeanne. All parents named. Pierre’s origin given; Jeanne a resident of Quebec.

5/11/1654, Etiennete Despres sold an area of 60 arpents to Pierre Parent, son-in-law of Jacques Badeau.

5/31/1654, Pierre received a land grant from the Jesuits. [Near the land of his father-in-law.]

10/8/1656, Pierre leased a house a few arpents from his land, owned by the Jesuits, paying Pierre Guillet 40 livres to vacate the property. Pierre working primarily as a butcher.

9/9/1657, Pierre Gagnon of Chateau Richer sold Pierre a beef for 129 livres.

10/7/1658, Pierre bought a small piece of land near his father-in-law’s land.

7/8/1659, Pierre sold the land he had acquired in 1654 back to Thiennette Despres, with a house, barn and stable, for 500 livres.

8/29/1659, Robert Giguere of St Anne du Petit Cap sold Pierre a beef for 75 livres.

4/4/1660, Pierre ceded land by the Jesuits, 16 square arpents, near a quarry in Notre-Dame-des-Anges, and near his widowed mother-in-law. Pierre and Jeanne operated the quarry for “Beauport” stone for the construction of houses. They also developed furnaces to make lime.

8/30/1662, Pierre obtained a right from the Governor to us a site in Upper Town Quebec as a slaughter house.

3/29/1664, Pierre, appearing as an expert before the Soverign Council, appraised the value of a beef that had been wounded.

5/14/1665, Pierre appeared before the Soverign Council on a charge of an altercation with his servant while intoxicated. He was aquitted.

Aft. 1670, Pierre bought land from his brothers-in-law that his father-in-law originally was granted in 1651.

10/15/1675, Jeanne signed a contract with the Seminary to provide 50 toises of Beauport stone for corners, doors, widows, and chimneys; to be delivered to the bottom of the slope of the hospital, near the brewery.

12/9/1670, Pierre to furnish and deliver to Charles Aubert the necessary lime and stone for the construction of a building joining his large house in the lower town.

4/24/1677, Pierre lost the right to his slaughter house in the Upper Town in a case before the Soverign Council brought by local citizens.

10/24/1678, Pierre contracted for a new location for his slaughter house.

12/22/1678, Jeanne contracted with Charles Aubert for stone and quick lime for a 54 by 25 foot building, and for a wind mill tower. Michel Chretien dit Lebrun was hired to extract the stone from the quarry.

1681 Census of Beauport, Pierre age 65; Jeanne age 43, 13 Children (Joseph, Jean and Etienne were 7 year old triplets), 4 domestic workers, 4 rifles, 1 hand gun, 18 horned animals, 24 goats, and he owned 100 arpents of land under cultivation.

4/19/1681, Jeanne and Antoine Cadde contracted to have a masonry gable with 2 chimneys on each side built between their houses in the Lower Town.

3/11/1682, Jeanne contracted with Francois Hazeur for stone and lime for buildings, and walls along a road.

1/17/1688, Jeanne leased property, a house, and the adjoining shop, located “on the street leading from the lower to the upper town”, from Marie Madeleine Pelletier, on behalf of her minor son, Joseph Parent, who could not enter a legal contract since he was not of age.

2/4/1688, Jeanne signed a contract with the Ursulines, to provide the lime, stone and other stone common to the masonry of the monastery that was destroyed by fire in 1686.

11/14/1688, Jeanne hired Guillaume Jourdain, master mason, to build them a house in Beauport, 3 stories, 45 by 30, with openings in stone cut by chisel like those of the Ursulines, and 2 chimneys side by side in cut stone.